Lawrence L. Langer (1929–2024)

A heart-rending representation of the art that comes from tragedy. Art is something that in dark times, seems to flourish more readily as a way to document our experience. Where words cannot suffice to tell the tale, images can be the vehicle. I believe we connect visually in ways with another through art that often language often express.

This proved to be a lodestar during my period of immersion. I beleive I checked this out from University for almost six months. I vividly recall certain chapters.

NO OF PAGES: 300 SUB CAT I: Holocaust SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: The imaginative literature that grew out of the atrocities of WWII has resurrected not a dead age but an unspeakable one. The Holocaust bequeathed a legacy of physical horror and spiritual discontinuity that obliged writers to invent new ways of writing.NOTES: SUBTITLE:

"A psychological meditation on the mutilation of memory by unspeakable experience... This book has great power, never more so than in the extensively quoted recollections of these fugitives from the worst of hells." from New York Times Book Rreview,Editors' Choice for one of the ten best books of 1991."